The Anti-Democracy Activist has a great article on the subject of traditionalists dumping capitalism. Should we dump capitalism? I guess that depends upon what your definition of capitalism is. The great conservatives Robert Nisbet and Russell Kirk were cautious against the “cash nexus” present in finance capitalism and a highly consumerist society. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn […]

Neo-Reaction has been making the rounds on blogs lately. As mentioned in a previous post, TechCrunch posted about it here. The American Conservative has talked about it twice recently ( here and here ) and The Week has mentioned it as well ( here ). A long and detailed criticism of Neo-Reaction can be read […]

Capitalism in the vernacular is typically synonymous with Big Business, multi-national corporations, golden parachutes, and other government benefits and handouts to corporations. For over one hundred years, the business elite during the Industrial Revolution have been harangued as Robber Barons. The Left, from socialists to anarchists to democrats and everything in between, has castigated capitalism […]

Despite American prejudices to the contrary, I refuse to abandon the word ‘liberal’ for what it has almost always historically stood for throughout the world – reason, liberty, property, and free trade. Liberalism in the American context is typically synonymous with the Welfare State, Progressivism, Social Democracy, and the Democratic Party. But for almost the […]

Neither anarchy nor monarchy is well understood in America today. To most Americans, anarchists are violent nihilists and monarchs are laughable buffoons. So when I advocate something like ‘anarcho-monarchism’, the masses really get confused. In addition, many leftist anarchists claim that rightist anarchism (anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-monarchism, etc.) can’t even exist. But that is a criticism that […]

This blog advocates a 'Gentlemanly' form of Anarchism - a throwback to the 'Tory Anarchism' of Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Evelyn Waugh.

Unreservedly part of the reactionary Right, it is a reconciliation of the libertarianism of Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the liberal aristocratism of Edmund Burke, John Randolph, Benjamin Constant, Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton, and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the conservatism of Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, and Robert Nisbet, and the radicalism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, and Lysander Spooner.

Anarcho-Monarchism stands in opposition to the totalitarianism of the State, the cultural stagnation of egalitarianism, and the atomistic individualism found within a hedonistic and highly commercialized society.

"The oligarchs are only concerned with the interest of the wealthy; the democrats, only with the interest of the poor; but the interests of society, the interest of all and the future...as a whole — no one...bothers about these things." - Dostoyevsky

"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C.S. Lewis

"I am against your democracy, Monsieur de Lafayette, because I am for freedom." - Gouverneur Morris

The relevance of Ludwig von Mises (and capitalism itself) to the Right (conservatives, traditionalists, and neoreactionaries all) is being talked about extensively at the moment (see here, here, and here). Of course, this is nothing new. Peter Viereck disliked Manchester liberalism, writing in 1951 that Yet what is [Buckley’s] alternative? Nothing more inspiring than the most […]

The Anti-Democracy Activist has another great post up on the subject of Elitism. In it, he details the need of elitism in our society and of the need for truly virtuous elites. To simply have “elites” as powerful politicians or business leaders is to misunderstand precisely what aristocraticism is. Bertrand de Jouvenel, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, […]

Thanks to Nick Land for the link to this great interview with Gary Oldman (n.b. Playboy interview). PLAYBOY: What’s your view of the future? Are you optimistic about where society is heading? OLDMAN: [Pauses] You’re asking Gary? PLAYBOY: Yes. OLDMAN: I think we’re up shit creek without a paddle or a compass. PLAYBOY: How so? […]

Anarchism and traditionalism are often viewed as diametrically opposed worldviews. But as both seek to provide solutions to different questions and problems, one can in fact be anarchist and traditionalist. Robert Nisbet and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn are two of the most important thinkers in the 20th Century. Both were conservatives. And both held a fondness […]

The Anti-Democracy Activist has a great article on the subject of traditionalists dumping capitalism. Should we dump capitalism? I guess that depends upon what your definition of capitalism is. The great conservatives Robert Nisbet and Russell Kirk were cautious against the “cash nexus” present in finance capitalism and a highly consumerist society. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn […]

Libertarianism is fascist. This charge is tiresome. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, one of the greatest philosophical opponents to fascism, has written extensively on how Fascism and Nazism were not part of the Right (and by extension, libertarianism), but rather are derivative movements of democracy and socialism and thus, belong squarely on the Left (a good dissent […]

Benjamin Welton has written a great piece on Julius Evola over at The Imaginative Conservative. Similarly, Michael Davis wrote about why he was a monarchist here (his entire blog is worth reading at The American High Tory). Neoreaction is certainly being talked a lot about, more and more everyday. Traditionalist conservatives are trying to decide […]

“Introduce a little anarchy,” the Joker said in The Dark Knight. Now, the Joker was an anarcho-nihilist and worshiper of chaos, of course. But it is amazing to see how people react when a little anarchy is introduced. Take this for example: a school got rid of playground rules and incidences of bullying have dropped. […]

I recently ran across this letter that Huxley had written to Orwell a few months after Nineteen Eighty-Four had been published: Dear Mr. Orwell, It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work […]

Popehat is tired of our society. The illusion has crumbled and what is left is something quite terrifying to behold. Burn everything! Like Mencken, every normal man must at times be tempted to rush to anarcho-nihilism and burn the world around him. Alas that we are but men, not animals or children, and must abide […]

Neo-Reaction has been making the rounds on blogs lately. As mentioned in a previous post, TechCrunch posted about it here. The American Conservative has talked about it twice recently ( here and here ) and The Week has mentioned it as well ( here ). A long and detailed criticism of Neo-Reaction can be read […]

There is a great article on Neoreactionary thought over at Techcrunch. I wouldn’t necessarily classify myself as a neoreactionary, but I’m certainly a fellow traveler. The article isn’t pro-reactionary, but it’s nice to see such positions at least talked about.

There is something very refreshing and captivating found within Russell Brand’s activism over the likes of other Hollywood activists, and I’m not sure what exactly that is. He’s an egalitarian socialist Leftist, so his solutions are all wrong, but his analysis of the failures in the West’s political systems is fairly accurate; and he’s genuinely […]

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"It is my declaration of principles as head of the Conservative Christian Anarchists; a party numbering one member. The Virgin and St. Thomas are my vehicles of anarchism." - Henry Brooks Adams

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” - Mark Twain

"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give." - Thomas Jefferson

"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world." - George Washington

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one." - Neil Postman

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal." - Julius Evola